You say satire, but kids developing “magical” compression algorithms were a thing in programming long before LLMs. This exact idea is not novel, even though it was executed quite a bit better by Facebook. It never got good enough for a real world application.
https://github.com/facebookresearch/NeuralCompression
![[Satire] "look, ma, I built a new compression algorithm!"](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/edeaced3-4837-4fd5-8e5d-6c31769b76a8.png){kind=link}
You say satire, but kids developing “magical” compression algorithms were a thing in programming long before LLMs. This exact idea is not novel, even though it was executed quite a bit better by Facebook. It never got good enough for a real world application. https://github.com/facebookresearch/NeuralCompression
Did you read the fake post?